The famed Yankee_Clipper , now retired , has been assisting as a batting_coach .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

But then one day , while on a week 's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler , Rousseau amused the company with a_few little melodies he had written , to which he attached no great importance .

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

The portwatchers were retired longshoremen and small_time seafarers off towboats and barges who acted_as watchmen on the wharves .

There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron_worker who 'd never gouged a cent off a fellow_worker in my thirty years in the movement .